Sofya Kovalevskaya

She didn’t just break into maths; she waltzed in, rearranged the rules, and left a trail of stunned men clutching their monocles. When she wasn’t busy revolutionising partial differential equations, she wrote novels and plays, just to show that maths skills and creativity weren’t mutually exclusive.

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15 January 1850
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Mathematician
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Russian Empire – Germany – Sweden

#quotes

"I have become convinced that one cannot learn everything and one life is barely sufficient to accomplish what I can in my chosen field."

#lessons

If the doors are closed, find a window – or build a whole new house.

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Many people who have not studied mathematics confuse it with arithmetic and consider it a dry and fruitless science. In reality, however, it is a science which requires a great amount of imagination.